Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Quotes

“Mediocre people promote mediocrity. Dont hire mediocre people. Instead, hire people who strive for greatness and they'll spread that greatness throughout the company.”

“Waste is antithetical to efficiency. You cannot have one while also having the other. In maximizing one, the other will definitely be minimized. In minimizing one, the other will definitely be maximized.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“There are huge business opportunities in geoengineering, if it's done in alignment with permaculture principles. And big climate change problems can be solved in the process.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“It's important to empower localized problem-solving in the way mycelium networks do.”

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“A business that exploits the suffering of living beings is not worthy of profit.”

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“Technology is important. We should utilize technology as a tool to help cultivate a permaculture economy. As we ensure that various technologies converge within the context of permaculture design and permaculture ethics, we make the world a better place.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The best ones to solve the climate change problem are businesses all around the world. If each business adapts permaculture principles, we would see massive improvements in climate and natural ecosystem conditions.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Business is not a popularity contest, it's a sales campaign. Popularity is only good if it converts to sales. Influence is only good if it converts to profit.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In business, profitability is a non-negotiable.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In business, profitability is a non-negotiable. If a business is not profitable, it's worthless.”

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“At the end of the day, the business needs to be profitable if it's going to keep providing the products or services that the customers love. If you're a customer and you love what you're buying from a business, then you should want that business to be profitable so that you can keep on buying that stuff from them.”

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“If you wanna learn more about profitability, go meditate in a forest.”

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“Nature prioritizes yields. The expectation is that everything be profitable”

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“Working with nature is much more profitable than working against it.”

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“Sometimes a business has to lose money in its infancy. But that's only okay if there's a path to profitability and a clear vision of a profitable business model. A loss is only acceptable if it's a present investment into future profit.”

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“If your business is making you go broke, it's doing the opposite of what it should be doing. You need to run some numbers and reassess what needs to happen to get to profitability.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Sometimes companies prioritize market share over profitability. That may be a good short term strategy, but it's unsustainable and there's a strict time limit on that whether company leadership will admit it or not.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Improving efficiency is a key to business evolution. For the business to evolve, the business will need to improve efficiencies, among other things.”

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“If you want your business to be resilient, you gotta improve cash flow and widen margins.”

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“Having the cash is only part of the solution. Once your business has the cash, the real task now is to invest it wisely and in a way that'll result in growth and greater profit.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“If your business is behind on it's bills, you know your business has a cash flow problem. And cash flow problems will destroy a business quickly.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“If you wanna learn about cash flow, go meditate in a forest.”

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“If a company gambles on leverage, it'll probably go bankrupt on leverage.”

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“Timing is critical to a successful product launch.”

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“ESG boils down to the collective small decisions of individuals just as much as it boils down to the economy shifting decisions of large companies.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“To maximize ESG performance in today’s economy, employing advanced technologies is a non-negotiable for companies. Effective software is becoming critical to compliance.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The greatest things in civilization were all made possible by the wise stewardship of Capital. And all of the problems of the world have as their root cause a misuse or waste of capital. Therefore the primary concern for every business and every human endeavor, is the wise stewardship of Capital. And this is especially true for every Chief Sustainability Officer.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“To every Chief Sustainability Officer out there, you have to realize that ESG boils down to managing different kinds of Capital. As Chief Sustainability Officer, you are really the Chief Steward of Capital.”

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“Corporate Social Responsibility is a company’s commitment to its stakeholders — to conduct business in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner. At scale, and with mass buy-in, society at whole is the beneficiary of Multiplicative Value Effects.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“While directly serving their customers, companies should indirectly serve the interests of society by taking responsibility for the holistic impact of their activities. Its simply a more broad view of value creation. This is what ESG is all about. With this perspective, the goal is still Profit — Profit for all stakeholders, to varying degrees and in varying capacities of course. This holistic view of profit produces what I call Multiplicative Value Effects, or, win-win scenarios as opposed to win-lose scenarios where the prerequisite of a companies win is a loss for societal stakeholders.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In business, sometimes you just have to let the results speak for themselves.”

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“When we get business networks to function similarly to neural networks and mycelium networks, we'll have a better world.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“If you lead a small business, it's important to understand how to deal with each credit bureau and utilize business credit effectively. Transunion is the superior credit bureau of the three bureaus - Transunion provides quality and comprehensive reports, they have efficient systems, and they have professional and intelligent staff. On the other hand, Equifax is mediocre at best. And Experian is so horrible they're basically worthless.”

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“In business, it's really important to keep operating costs low. You don't want your business to be a spendthrift business because spendthrift businesses eventually eat through all their earnings.”

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“There's a lot to consider at the intersection of business and social work. It's about earning a lot of money while adding a lot of value to peoples lives and making the world a better place.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In terms of systems design, shapes are important. Rectangles are not common in nature. That's probably because from a systems design perspective, rectangles often degrade efficiency instead of contributing to efficiency. Yet humans have designed an entire supply chain system based on rectangles, squares and straight lines. If we want to be more efficient, we should replace those rectangles, squares and straight lines with ovals, circles and hexagons. And maybe some other nature inspired geometries.”

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“If you wanna learn about supply chains and distribution, go meditate in a forest.”

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“The best supply chain is one that has no beginning and no end.”

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“Everything in a permaculture ecosystem is expected to have continuous present utility.”

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“When production, consumption and capacity are not in alignment, the result is waste.”

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“Improving the material ecology of all products is one way to improve supply chains.”

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